Can you be more specific ? do the drivers not detect the disk ? partitionin or format HPFS not work ? are there problems with sound, video or network connectivity ? the installation crashes ?

Aparently you never tried it, or you would know. 99% of the time after install before teh WPS loads it crashes. I only was able to get to load/run on VMWARE on v12 or lower.

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Works for me first attempt on VirtualBox 6.0.24.

now try it on other VMs... KVM/QEMU for instance... i'm sure there are numerous people who would be quite interested in seeing OS/2 or ArcaOS install and work out of the box in that...

If I was running a mission critical BBS and at risk of permanent hardware failure, then I would have virtualised it and rehearsed a DR failover. Not using a compatible VM because incompatible ones are preferred is a high price to pay for downtime, unless you secretly wanted an excuse to retire Waldo's Place.

I am conducting an initial analysis into the viability of running a BBS on OS/2 in a VM. Clearly, installing it on a VM is not a problem. Are there issues that prevent or make it difficult to run a BBS on OS/2 ?

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Quoting mark lewis to Marceline Jones <=-

Re: Re: Running a BBS on OS/2
By: Marceline Jones to T.J. MCMILLEN on Sat Mar 27 2021 10:30:00

Works for me first attempt on VirtualBox 6.0.24.

now try it on other VMs... KVM/QEMU for instance... i'm sure there are numerous people who would be quite interested in seeing OS/2 or ArcaOS install and work out of the box in that...

I have ArcaOS running good on MS Virtual PC 2007. Has a few tips
and tricks to have shared folder and sound but works fine.

On Arca Noae has a tutorial (with erros) to install on Virtual Box,
but i don't like VBox.


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mark lewis wrote to Mauro Veiga <=-

i don't care about other OS hosts than linux or hypervisors other than KVM/QEMU, really... that's why i specifically requested MJ to install
OS/2 on it... if they can do it, then anyone can... so far, it has been nothing but crickets... kinda expected but :shrug:

Is there any joy running OS/2 under QEMU? I have a home lab running on Proxmox, which uses QEMU as it's virtual environment. I'd love to load up my old OS/2 install on it.


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i don't know... i've not been able to get the install
to work properly... if i can find out what needs to be
done, then i could possibly bring my original system
back online but i don't care to fight that fight any
more... i
already spent several days on it 3 or so years ago... i
got no where then and i haven't seen anyone posting
anything new about having been successful doing it with
KVM/QEMU...

i've found a few links:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/OS2WarpV3_guest

http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/qemu/index.html (looks a bit outdated, but there are some tipsntricks which can be useful)

https://gekk.info/articles/os2.html (preinstalled os/2 images for virtualbox. os/2 versions 1.1->4.5)

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/05/15/qemu-os2-tcpip-networking/
here it says: "First of all OS/2 2.0 will not install in new versions of Qemu. I had to go all the way back to Qemu 0.9.0! "

somewhere i read that VT-x/AMD-V is needed when you are using os/2 w/ qemu.

under virutalbox it is running fine. i've never tried qemu, but with
lot of time i think it's possible :)


ps: this is an interesting project i've found: https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/os2be.htm

gl, hf!
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